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The book of the Revelation in the New Testament preserves for us the same idea. Just as those deluded by the beast were to be sealed on the forehead, so the believers of the Lord are to be protected by the sign on the forehead. "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads". Rev. 7:3. What was that sign? We do not have to guess or theorize to find out, as we have the literature of the earliest Aramaic Church, coming from the time of some of the New Testament Literature. This early Jewish Christian community see [[Aramaic Church]], prior to the work of the day, would pray their "psalms" together, and would "sign" themselves, not on their forehead as Christians of the Roman sphere were doing, but they would involve their whole body, stretching out their arms as the cross bar. And they would tell what they meant, and so the sign continued on through the centuries. This is the earliest literary mention of making the sign of the cross:

The book of the Revelation in the New Testament preserves for us the same idea. Just as those deluded by the beast were to be sealed on the forehead, so the believers of the Lord are to be protected by the sign on the forehead. "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads". Rev. 7:3. What was that sign? We do not have to guess or theorize to find out, as we have the literature of the earliest Aramaic Church, coming from the time of some of the New Testament Literature. This early Jewish Christian community see [[Aramaic Church]], prior to the work of the day, would pray their "psalms" together, and would "sign" themselves, not on their forehead as Christians of the Roman sphere were doing, but they would involve their whole body, stretching out their arms as the cross bar. And they would tell what they meant, and so the sign continued on through the centuries. This is the earliest literary mention of making the sign of the cross:

"I extended my hands and approached my Lord, For the expansion of my hands is His sign, And my extension is the common cross; That was lifted up on the way of the Righteous One." <ref>(A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. l., Samuel Hugh Moffett, Orbis,{Odes Sol.42:1,2,}, 1998, pg.52)</ref>

"I extended my hands and approached my Lord, For the expansion of my hands is His sign, And my extension is the common cross; That was lifted up on the way of the Righteous One." (A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. l., Samuel Hugh Moffett, Orbis,{Odes Sol.42:1,2,}, 1998, pg.52)

== See also ==

== See also ==